Ars editors lay out their ideas to turn the House of Mario around.
After being benched for 20 years, and returning only to be forsaken again despite being a splendid game, it's time Kid Icarus gets salvation.
The Nintendo Switch is potentially nearing its lifespan, and several Wii U games haven't found their way over as ports yet.
I think it's better to leave games like AC: Amiibo Festival and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash forgotten on the Wii U. Best case, they are mediocre games; worse case, they are very bad. It was a dark time for the Wii U, and the first only exists to sell Amiibo cards, whereas the second was put together in a couple of months with a shoestring budget, and it shows.
The rest of the list does have some really cool games, though. I would love to see a remake of Star Fox Zero with decent controls, and Xenoblade X doesn't require that much modification to work.
This article leaves out Nintendo's most controversial game to date devils Third.
I personally found the cover system really fun in that one compared to at the time most fps games completely lacking one.
Kirby is always ignored or forgotten by people, so good to see it mentioned here.
Play Kirby Canvas Curse on DS, and then play Rainbow Curse on Wii U, they're really fun and unique 'platformers' without any actual jumping.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Release a gamepad-less WiiU, throw in a pro controller a free downloadable game and sell it for around $150-$200. If Microsoft can make the kinect an option for the X1 then who's to say Nintendo can't do the same with the WiiU and gamepad. ;)
Sony has more financial problems than Nintendo, Sony needs to be saved, Nintendo is healthy...
Fire Iwata , give an apology to the fans and build a controller based console that is as strong as the xb1 and ps4 , that will get the 3rd parties back .
Isn't obvious BUY Mario Kart 8 Bundle
#1 - Announcements and Advertisements...
Start by releasing a commercial and playing it everywhere multiple times, every old school nes, snes, genesis, gba, gbc, gb, n64 game is being immediately released on the eShop.
There is no reason that they are taking their sweet time releasing this bs on the Wii U.
And once they have the Virtual Console updated, immediately price drop every single 1st party game 6 months and older to keep up with the used game pricing found everywhere else. Find out how many 3rd party publishers want to do the same...
Within a day you've already taken care of the two of the three problems that exist on the eShop.
Remove taxes from eShop purchases and include a $50 eShop redemption card with every Wii U console and a $25 eShop card with every 3ds console. I know the 3ds isn't hurting, but entice everyone considering any Nintendo product. It does not hurt any sales including a gift card because you have brought in a customer that you didn't have prior...
Announce that all future games won't require the gamepad for single player games. And make it where you don't even need the gamepad for the Wii U menu or eShop or anything else that requires it.
Announce a full fledged Pokemon RPG for the Wii U. I don't even care if it hasn't started development. Just announce it and get your best guys from Gamefreak to start this project. I don't need an estimated release date, just tell the world that this game is coming out for the Wii U.
This would turn Nintendo around immediately, but they'd rather be stubborn about everything, having one guy run their network it department and thinks that price shops should never happen because it wouldn't be fair to customers 3 years ago who paid full price to see a price drop now.
That is how retarded Nintendo is right now...